July 11th will see one of the biggest games ever to hit Japan in the form of Dragon Quest IX. We find out why the game has been delayed for so long, and what compromises had to be made to get there.

“We had a ton of ideas in the beginning about what we wanted to do,” he said, “but once we got into the summer of 2008, we began revising the plan because we worried there was too much volume, that it’d scare people off. It was a necessary balancing process, but it was really tough. It’s scary for a creator to have to cut out his own work from a game.”